Cultural analysis of France
Course material - 18 pages - Sociology & social sciences
France is one of the 27 member States of the European Union. This means it enjoys the four fundamental freedoms within the European market: freedom of movement for people, money, services and goods. France is located in Western Europe, a developed area with all the necessary infrastructures for...
Culture shock for students abroad: a new trend
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For years, a lot of business schools in the world have proposed a year of study abroad in order to enrich the student's culture. Some people are not aware of the difficulties students face in this kind of adventure. It is worth analyzing how students live through this brutal experience. First...
The use of the room's phone in Aynsley Hall
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Aynsley Hall is a foreign students residence on the Stoke-on-Trent campus. The phone is installed in all the rooms and it is free to call on the campus. The title of my research is 'The use of the room's phone in Aynsley Hall' and one research question is 'By what means the use of...
The use and abuse of biology, an anthropological critique of sociobiology
Worksheets - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
According to M. Sahlins, vulgar sociobiology is "the explication of human social behavior as the expression of the needs and drives of the human organism". This thesis implies that social organization is exclusively determined by biology. However, among other arguments, the author argues that one...
The measure of America: how a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism, Claudia Roth Pierpont - published: 06/10/2009
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Based on Boas's life and achievements, Claudia Roth Pierpont's article ?How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism' deals with the origins of anthropology in the United States, laying emphasis on the importance of Boas, the "rebel anthropologist?, in the transformation of the...
One brain two languages: The advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Language is such a vital part of our existence. We are confronted daily with language through interaction with others and within ourselves through our own inner dialogue. On the whole scientific inquiry and analysis utilizes language in communicating ideas and conducting experimentation....
Masculinity challenged in suburbia
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As we said in class when we talked about Suburban Men, gender is something performed and performances are constructed throughout the things you do. For its part, masculinity means: the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men (word reference online dictionary). Masculinity changed a...
The historiography of suburban women since the 1960's
Worksheets - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Betty Freidan's Feminine Mystique is told to be the book which opened the door of the second wave of the feminism movement in the United States of the 1960's. Flora Davis, the writer of "Moving the Mountain: The women's movement since the 1960? calls it "the book that changed lives"....
Environmental racism
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
According to Fredrickson, America was able to largely ignore the “race question” until the American Revolution. Before the war for independence, Jews were mostly sequestered in ghettos and black people on plantations, so the need for a dominating racial ideology had not yet arisen....
Terror in the Mind of God: A book review
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The world has become a more dangerous place to live in the past fifteen years or so. According to Mark Juergensmeyer's book, Terror in the Mind of God; the Global Rise of Religious Violence, this can be attributed to religious terrorists, or activists depending on one's perspective, reacting...
Ritual killing - the logic of Sacrifice
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Sacrifice usually involves violence and is thus morally problematic. On the other hand, something new and presumably good comes into being through this violence. This paradox has been at the core of many interpretations since the logic of ritual violence exists since the beginning of times as an...
Lady Xun: The selfless spouse
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As the daughter of an affluent father, Lady Xun was destined for a life of prosperity. However, her life was marked by benevolence, not political or economical achievements. After marrying Yuanye Zhang, her life went from extreme luxury into a married life of severe poverty. While marrying...
Lenin's Bolshevik faction and the Jews in Russia
Case study - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Jews in the nineteenth and early twentieth century were assimilating into the broader Gentile culture of Europe, thanks to the immense pressures of modernization and, to a lesser extent, democratization. The Jews of Russia faced much of the same choice as the rest of the Russian population in the...
Are we born with Charisma or can we learn it?
Essay - 15 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For generations, the representation of the charisma concept has been characterized by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, John F Kennedy, or more recently Barrack Obama. Although these leaders engaged in completely different things in their life to be recognized as charismatic, they...
Honor killing in the United Kingdom
Case study - 31 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In recent years there have been a spate of killings in the UK characterized by the family members killing their own daughters or one of the female family members. These killings have one theme in common: a female member is generally killed by her family brutally for transgressing family code....
As the world turns: Constructing the problem of cultural illiteracy
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Miscommunication happens every day, in every type of forum, for many different reasons. Sometimes the incident is simply that - a miscommunication, but other times it bears witness to a deeper misunderstanding, based on or ignoring one's cultural or ethnic group. The current name that I offer for...
America offers the best and the worst
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
South America and North America form two very different realities of the American continent. Histories, languages, democracies, or policies are various elements which distinguish politically, geographically and economically these poles of America. That is why, if we have to study it, we will need...
Reforming the workplace
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The study of the sociology of work reveals that work plays a very significant role on our society, and over the last few centuries the nature of work has changed drastically, thus changing the nature of society along with it - from an industrial to a post-industrial society. The nature of work in...
Legal moralism and polygamy
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Polygamy - the practice of being married to more than one person - is illegal in Canada, though it is rarely prosecuted. This law seems to be based on out society's unreflective common morals, rather than on rational arguments about the harm it does. The following will examine whether polygamy...
Cultural relativism and multiculturalism
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Nowadays, we observe a developing phenomenon of identity-assertion and an increasing number of requests for recognition of cultural specificities. Globalization and massive immigration create a melting pot. There are now 175 million international migrants (twice more than in 1965), and it is...
Theories of social problems
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As Gandhi said "the soul of India lives in villages". The culture of India was born and is still living in them. The village is the smallest territorial unit, and since 3/4th of the Indian population lives in villages, understanding rural life leads to a larger understanding of the Indian society...
Theories of social problems - publié le 30/06/2009
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
All the societies in existence control their own organizations, in order to live, develop and survive. This is why one tries to notice and solve social disorders and problems. Sociology has developed as a science that studies how social problems are emerging. Studying the theories of the social...
An analysis of Goldstone's 'The rise of the West- or not? A revision of socio-economic history'
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The article deals with some of the common notions concerning why the so-called ?Rise of the West? (Goldstone, 2000) occurred, and then proceeds to offer counter-arguments all leading up to the final conclusion that without the presence of four events which were arguably complete accidents or...
Endangered speeches: A theoretical approach to aboriginal linguistic minority rights in Canada
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Today, as globalisation and technology rapidly increase along with industrialisation and environmental degradation, many environmentalists are calling to attention the alarming rate at which ecosystems, forests, clean water and even whole species are becoming extinct. Unfortunately, another type...
Are Celebrities the heroes of today? A contemplative approach from Modernism to Postmodern times
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"President John F. Kennedy had a significant impact on my life. I practically worshiped him. His charm, grace, and simplicity made me aware of the essential qualities of a person. I cherished his words and wisdom and complete absence of flaws. I have hoped in my own mind that the man I end up...
Nursery School and Gender Construction
Internship report - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I chose to study the links between nursery schools and gender construction because I wanted to show how this institution plays an active role in the representations children have of their social role as boy or girl. As my research is mostly about the toys and the games of the children in the...
Could we know if we are being manipulated by society?
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For the purpose of this paper, manipulation can be defined, "As a way of obtaining a behavior in an elaborate, expected and predictable manner from an individual or a group, without them being aware of the influence of external forces?. The theory of manipulation therefore suggests that the...
English Teenagers Worst Behave in Europe
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
During this seminar, we were asked to show a stereotype commonly admitted about the United Kingdom. When we mention the English educational system, we first think that it is very strict; because we have in mind images of young boys and girls with uniforms, and English people in general are told...
Society vs. desire
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In America there is the idea that a person can be whoever and/or whatever they want and still have the chance to succeed. This is part of the so-called “American Dream”. This idea is often a theme in the American novel. However, in the American novel, despite a character's desire to...
Tropical wasteland: A fort Lauderdale community's battle for justice
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
On the surface, Sunny South Florida may seem like an ideal resort area with abundant affluence and beautiful scenery. Once one heads away from the beach and toward I-95, however, a different story emerges. Densely packed neighborhoods populated mostly by minority citizens are the norm, and it...
